The rich were not a hereditary class, for most wealthy men were self-made.

The hereditary class, the political class - their morale took a bad beating.

Every individual is born into a specific station with the main hereditary classes being slave, freeman, and lord.

In this way these highly educated elites produce a paradox - a hereditary meritocratic class.

Professional warriors were an elite hereditary class known as samurai.

In some societies, this group is often a self-perpetuating or hereditary class.

Those in all the key positions of the Party, the military, and the secret police belong to this hereditary class.

Ancient Egypt also had a hereditary class of scribes that administered the civil service bureaucracy.

There can be no doubt that these marriage limitations tend to make the samurai something of an hereditary class.

Welfare should be given to those who need it, not to a hereditary claimant class.